BlackBerry 2FA

Use Mobile Devices for a Better Authentication Solution

Critical enterprise systems – especially cloud applications – are more exposed than ever before because of the growing threat of cybercrime. Data breaches and cybersecurity threats are some of the biggest roadblocks to realizing the full potential of the Enterprise of Things —the growing range of devices connected to your organization.

Passwords alone are not enough for the expanding number of endpoints in your network. Two-factor authentication is essential, but legacy solutions are expensive, difficult to manage, and hard to use.

Improve the Authentication Experience for Employees

Security is critical to your organization, but so is employee experience and morale. BlackBerry 2FA delivers a positive user experience, and supports a wide range of employee devices (iOS, Android™, and BlackBerry®). Once employees have registered one or more mobile devices, they can access critical systems simply by entering their usual password and clicking OK on a registered mobile device to authenticate.

Enables access to critical systems, even in emergencies or special situations

Allows for the use of multiple, preferred devices

Safeguard Your Critical Systems

More and more organizations today are recognizing that their current two-factor authentication systems are inadequate, because they:

Offer a complex and frustrating user experience

Don’t adequately protect cloud apps

Use consumer-grade SMSs or voice callbacks, both susceptible to malware

Force authentication into the cloud to protect on-premises systems

Rely on unmanaged devices for authentication

You know you need more than just user passwords protecting your organization’s high-value systems, whether it’s critical cloud apps like Microsoft® Office 365™ and Salesforce®, or your VPN. You need a second factor, not just something that users know (like passwords) but also something users have. More than anything else, users have their mobile devices with them throughout the day.

Combined with other software and services from BlackBerry, BlackBerry 2FA can also help you to comply with regulations, including the EU’s incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Deploy Based on Your Organization’s Needs

BlackBerry 2FA offers flexible deployment options. You can choose to make the move to BlackBerry 2FA all at once with simple, quick deployment. Or you can opt to deploy for a chosen number of users, then work in parallel with your legacy system and easily scale up as desired.

It allows automatic provisioning to devices managed by BlackBerry® UEM, and a simple activation procedure for users with other devices. In either case, no IT support is required. There are no new physical devices to ship, and no seed files to manage. And you can easily set up BlackBerry 2FA on as many devices as users have.

Support Every Type of User

With BlackBerry 2FA, you can provide two-factor authentication to every type of user inside and outside your organization—from traditional employees and part-time contractors to partners. It supports unmanaged devices and devices managed by a third party, so it can easily map onto almost any device external users may have. If they have a device, you can provision remote users without requiring any new hardware.

BlackBerry 2FA supports affordable, standards-based hardware tokens for users without mobile devices, or users unwilling to put software on their devices. Compared with legacy hard tokens on the market, the tokens supported by BlackBerry 2FA are designed to be less expensive, have longer battery life (typically double), and are available through a wide range of vendors.

Lower Your Operating Costs

BlackBerry 2FA has low up-front costs, with no new authentication devices or infrastructure required. Legacy two-factor authentication systems are expensive to maintain. They often have high maintenance or subscription fees, in addition to high operational costs due to complex provisioning and heavy use of IT resources for resolving user issues.

BlackBerry 2FA virtually eliminates help desk requests that occur frequently with legacy two-factor authentication systems, such as forgotten PINs and lost hard token devices. User errors are also drastically decreased.

Equip Users to Self-Rescue

BlackBerry 2FA offers optional features that can ensure users always have access to your cloud services, VPN, or other systems they need to keep working – without involving IT. Users can pre-authenticate ahead of known network connectivity loss – for example, heading into an area of poor network coverage or air travel.

For device loss, a portal allows users to self-rescue , or even register a replacement device, as appropriate.

Get Started

Purchase BlackBerry 2FA as a part of the BlackBerry® Enterprise Mobility Suite.